I THINK I mean (muddy here, too!) the teaching of the strategy of using pragmatics and other deep structure as a tool to decode as well as understand.
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected]> Date: Mon, 19 > May 2008 16:26:32 -0400> Subject: Re: [Understand] pragmatic system was > Lexical system> > Bev> Do you mean the use of pragmatics when teaching > decoding or when a reader actually is decoding during the reading process? > Just when I thought I was getting clearer...the water has muddied again!> > Jenn> > > Jennifer Palmer> Reading Specialist, National Board Certified > Teacher> FLES- Lead the discovery, Live the learning, Love the adventure.> > Reading furnishes the mind only with the materials of knowledge. It is > thinking> that makes what we read ours. -John Locke> > Hi Ellin - So could > you elaborate a bit on the use of pragmatics and deep structure in decoding? > It seems to me that pragmatics could be wider and deeper than > re-experiencing. It seems to me that there's a use for the concept before and > during reading as well as after. Thanks. Bev> > > I think of the pragmatic > system as "re-experiencing" text in order to> understand it more deeply. It > could be as simple as a rereading or it can> take the form of a conversation > in a book club, writing through some of the> ideas to clarify what you're > thinking (basically what I did in writing To> Understand) or even capturing > key ideas from what you've read through art or> drama. The pragmatic system - > the opportunity to work through the ideas> that you have read - increases the > likelihood that we're going to retain and> reapply what we've understood. The > pragmatic system is the application and> a sort of "working through" of ideas > that we've learned whether we've read> them or learned them in another > context. Think of when you go to your own> book club and walk away thinking > about the book you've all read in a very> different way - you understand it > better because of other's perspectives.> When you plan for how to teach a > concept and you work to express it in the> clearest, most precise terms so > that kids can get it, that's you using the> pragmatic system. In both > examples, you rework what you know in order to> make the ideas clearer. _________________________________________________________________ E-mail for the greater good. Join the i’m Initiative from Microsoft. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join/Default.aspx?source=EML_WL_ GreaterGood _______________________________________________ Understand mailing list [email protected] http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/listinfo/understand_literacyworkshop.org
